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Show ROCKY lORD SUCCESS. I It Is only a year ago thnt the Oxnard Beet Sugar company came to this vaG ley and called n meeting nt this place of thoso interested in the beet sugar faS tory, to consider their proposition ofj putting a plant hero of 1,000 tons ym day capacity, costing $1,600,000 if tlra people aionnd Rocky Ford would oifl tract to raise for E ycats 4,000 iitics ortuf the rest of the towns of tho valley 4,(KKL moro at $4 per ton for beets tebting J3 per cent sugar and 33' cent for every! per cent above ih.u. In a fow weeKF the contracts for tin-8,0001) acres werfl all bigned, but tlio work on the Ini-mensts Ini-mensts fticloiy did not eouimoncu till tho si.ring opened. 4 Tho work won pushed night nnd daw and on the 10th of Octoher commenced running and turned out tho finished product in n very superior crude of sugar. It is now (Irmly on it legs us ing 1,000 tons pur day employing over 400 men. jjN Through the efforts of Senator SwlnU and Mr. Davis, Siipt. of Transportation of the Pu la IV K. U., seed had heeiT distributed free through tho valley .lif dlfferfiit year:! ami tents made whfffl I satisfied tlio beet company Unit thk valley was the place where all the com? dilioiisuf climate, soil, etc., were fout to produce beets of the largee t tonimnu and highest teat of nny place now knuwif in the world. From the data ofj experiments ex-periments that had been made in tlijs valley, the company felt Binguino, 4bnf at tho time of seeding perhaps n imv- j .rty of tho groworswere williiliftlfjfay' even as high as $5 per aero to unload their contracts. But now, when the crop is well under way of harvest, tho lest, tonnage and cost, known? a very different feeling prevails, for where they find fields yielding from 12 to o'tir 30 tons per acre and the average of near 18 per cent tei't of sugar. To be moro d6fiuito will givo tlio test of the first U loads delUercd by your correspondent: Firet, 17 per cent; 2nd 21.5; 3rd, 18.8; 4th, 14,8; 5th, 21.lt 0th; 10.7; 7th, 20; 8th, 10.3;- 0th, 10; 10th, 15(1; Uth, 18. While this is more thau eouie, yet it is less than others |